Ronan O'Rahilly
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Ronan O'Rahilly (born May 21, 1940 in Dublin , Ireland , † April 20, 2020 in County Louth , Ireland) was an Irish businessman who became known for founding the pirate station Radio Caroline .
Life
O'Rahilly's parents owned the private marina at Greenore , County Louth . His grandfather Michael O'Rahilly ( The O'Rahilly ) was one of the people involved in the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland , in which he fought the British Army and died in machine gun fire.
Before founding Radio Caroline, O'Rahilly worked for the Gunnell brothers, who ran the trendy Flamingo Club in London's Soho district . He was the manager of several pop musicians, including Georgie Fame , with whom he recorded a record on his own label. O'Rahilly tried several times to get his records on stations such as the BBC and Radio Luxemburg . However, these only played music from labels that paid for it; But O'Rahilly did not have the necessary resources. Then he decided to start his own radio station.
He got the idea to try the same thing through the pirate radio station Radio Veronica , which was installed on a ship lying off the Dutch coast. He bought the Danish ferry Fredericia and converted it into a transmission ship. On March 28, 1964, Radio Caroline began broadcasting from there. Radio Caroline ran under the Bolivian and Panamanian flags, was registered in Switzerland, was billed via Liechtenstein and was playing pop music in London at the time that was not appreciated by the public broadcaster BBC. The radio pioneer O'Rahilly named his station after John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline.
O'Rahilly later worked on the production of a number of films, including Nackt unter Leder with Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon . He also produced the album Two Virgins with John Lennon and Yoko Ono . He was also the manager of the Australian actor George Lazenby , known for the title role in James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service . His plan of founding a pirate television station, too, he could not realize - just like a music steamer with nuclear drive.
Web links
- Ronan O'Rahilly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pirate Radio Caroline Begins Test Broadcasts - March 27, 1964. In: History Channel . June 19, 2016(English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Penelope Green: Ronan O'Rahilly, Pioneer of Pirate Radio, Is Dead at 79. In: The New York Times , May 3, 2020. Accessed May 4, 2020.
- ↑ Willi Winkler: The radio pirate. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
- ^ A b Ronan O'Rahilly Biography. In: AllMusic . Retrieved April 21, 2020 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Rahilly, Ronan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 2020 |
| Place of death | County Louth , Ireland |